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...lower risk. "It means that even small amounts of inexpensive and easy-to-perform exercise - just walking - can be of help to protect you against brain vascular damage," says Dr. Giovanni Ravaglia, the study's lead author, "and this is a type of exercise that even older disabled people with chronic disease can do without too much trouble...
...explosion of interest in the disorder will lead more people with autism and their relatives to be tested for the Fragile X defect. Just being a carrier of the disorder can have health implications, including an elevated risk of premature menopause for women and tremors and cognitive decline in older men. Theoretically, a drug that treats Fragile X could lower risks for carriers as well. Says Hagerman: "It's a very exciting time...
...pines for a lost love - a communist soldier she names only as "M," but he has vowed to be married only to the cause. She fends off seemingly endless declarations of love from patients. She also records passionate but platonic friendships with at least three younger soldiers, and an older Communist Party cadre, but is dismayed at the gossip these chaste relationships stir up. People "see only materialistic things, only sex!" she writes on April 5, 1970. "Oh, how detestable." (Not that Tram, living under the strain of war, is above amorous emotions. She becomes jealous when...
...fact, a moment of medical nostalgia that prompted the pilot study that became the foundation for the VA trial. Recalling his days as a surgical resident in the 1970s, Hinshaw says older nurses would regularly give massages to frail, elderly patients prone to delirium on postoperative drugs. The treatment - standard at the time - helped those patients. "But now most of the nurses who practice it are retired," he says, and, now, medical training adheres more strictly to quantitative means of evaluating patient progress. So, patients' individual concerns and worries are sometimes swept aside in the process, preventing them from receiving...
Emery Thompson’s study also helps confirm a hypothesis about why male chimpanzees prefer older females. Without menopause, older female chimpanzees are highly coveted since they have both the ability to reproduce and more experience as mothers...